Joel Faintuch is a gastrointestinal surgeon, and former international guest fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is an honorary fellow of three foreign surgical societies, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Maastricht. His interests include nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and bariatric surgery. He pioneered parenteral and enteral nutrition in Brazil and South America, and was a founding member of various medical societies. In recent years, his focus has been on the link between the microbiome and metabolome, and precision medicine. Joel Faintuch is the author of over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 10 books, three theses, over 200 book chapters and other publications.Salomao Faintuch is the Clinical Director of Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School. He has authored more than 60 original articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 7 society guidelines and standards of practice. He is a Radiological Society of North America Research Scholar, serves in ten national society committees, and is member of the editorial boards of three international journals.

• Introduction.- Accountability of Scientific Teams.- Research Ethics.- Research Misconduct.- Academic Institutions.- Sensationalistic Science.- Clinical Trials.- Corruption and impropriety in the healthcare environment.- Science and the Internet.- The Ethics of Publications.-  Conflicts of Interest.- Predatory Practices.- Corrective Interventions.- Tools for integrity assessment, general guidelines and supplementary material.

Joel Faintuch is a gastrointestinal surgeon, and former international guest fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is an honorary fellow of three foreign surgical societies, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Maastricht. His interests include nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and bariatric surgery. He pioneered parenteral and enteral nutrition in Brazil and South America, and was a founding member of various medical societies. In recent years, his focus has been on the link between the microbiome and metabolome, and precision medicine. Joel Faintuch is the author of over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 10 books, three theses, over 200 book chapters and other publications.Salomao Faintuch is the Clinical Director of Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School. He has authored more than 60 original articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 7 society guidelines and standards of practice. He is a Radiological Society of North America Research Scholar, serves in ten national society committees, and is member of the editorial boards of three international journals.

• Introduction.- Accountability of Scientific Teams.- Research Ethics.- Research Misconduct.- Academic Institutions.- Sensationalistic Science.- Clinical Trials.- Corruption and impropriety in the healthcare environment.- Science and the Internet.- The Ethics of Publications.-  Conflicts of Interest.- Predatory Practices.- Corrective Interventions.- Tools for integrity assessment, general guidelines and supplementary material.